Ghost caught on camera

Reader snaps spooky mystery on Confidential tunnel tour

She’d just been on our tunnel tour under the Great Northern Goods Warehouse. She’d taken a picture and found a ghost.

This picture looks as close to the real deal of a spook caught on camera - whether it’s Cedric or not - as any in Manchester’s history

Or at least something very, very odd.

People who are open to the supernatural see ghosts everywhere. For instance a speck of dust as it moves on an air current and caught in a camera flash becomes an ‘orb’: a ball of otherworldly energy left by the souls of the departed.

Really? Orbs we reckon are a bit rubbish.

Aine’s picture shows much more than this.

It shows an arm, a back, the nape of a neck. It could be a coincidence of dust, a flash from some other snapper on the tour affecting the image caught here.

Could be.

Or maybe it’s a ghost captured on camera: a digital projection from over there to over here.

And there’s more to this story than meets the eye.

A couple of years ago Confidential was down in the tunnels with a local psychic society. The tunnels follow the drained Manchester and Salford Junction Canal and the group were in the same place as shown on Aine’s picture.

“Oh yes,” came the reply, “there’s a man down here from around a hundred years ago, he’s with us now. Maybe he drowned in the canal. He’s called Cedric and he likes the company we provide.”

We told the lads at Great Northern security about the picture of the ‘ghost’. They told us how another set of psychics down there had detected in that same area a ‘vortex between the living and the dead’, in other words some type of supernatural door. That sounds insane, but we’ll pursue the group and chase down the story.

Still wow.

This picture looks as close to the real deal of a spook caught on camera - whether it’s Cedric or not - as any in Manchester’s history.

It’s also beautiful, a figure composed of thousands of pricks of light, like an astrological chart showing the figures of the constellations picked out in stars (click here). Like stardust.

By the way there are more Great Northern Tunnel tours coming up. Click here to book and for details.

We also now have more underground tours of Manchester, deep down under the old city centre on a site that’s been occupied for perhaps as much as a thousand years. These will look at the history and stories of an utterly fascinating area of the city, and reveal surprising stories again of a supernatural nature, in the vaults and chambers down there. To book click here.

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Bored of Tunnels. We've taken thousands of people down there and scarcely had a complaint, nor can I remember one from you when you went down. Now the picture is genuine. I saw it on Aine's phone immediately as the group came out of the tunnels. It fascinated me so I asked for Aine to send me the image. Of course we used it to market the other tunnel tours we have coming up. What is wrong with that? We'd be stupid not to. Maybe you don't read the book reviews in the Sunday 'papers which after the review ask you if you want to buy the book, usually at a discount from them. Don't always look at the world with a suspicious scowl my friend, it'll make you look like a pig as my gran used to say.

My question is what on earth did Aine intend to photograph in the first place? What's in the background that was the intended subject? There isn't anything, so it makes it look like the photo was taken to specifically show the 'ghost' which, of course. couldn't be seen... Mmmmm.

Looks like somebody's back wearing a tux or something,but when enlarged,it looked like a face,almost a skull,I could almost see the hollow eyes.I also notice those small,white molecules,I find them creepy.